From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11311 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Byer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Monospaced typeface Date: 09 Jun 1997 10:17:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151041 29542 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA30082 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:20:04 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18015 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:20:14 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA29252 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:19:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtp-relay-2.Adobe.COM (smtp-relay-2.adobe.com [192.150.11.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:18:24 +0200 Original-Received: by smtp-relay-2.Adobe.COM (8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04020; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by inner-relay-1.Adobe.COM (8.7.5) with ESMTP id KAA12838; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by elroy.corp.Adobe.COM (8.7.5) with SMTP id KAA08443; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "08 Jun 1997 11:05:29 -0400" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1701 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11311 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11311 Stainless Steel Rat writes: Lars> This version uses a 12 point face, which is too big, I think. It Lars> looks nice, but the manual ends up being 300 pages, which is too much. Lars> 10 point, perhaps? What's the norm? Rat> Book printing tends to be a 12 point Times Roman or similar face Rat> (Palatino, Bookman, Schoolbook, etc). But if you stick with Times Rat> Roman (CMR -- an especially readable font) you can get down to 9-10 Rat> point and remain readable. Anything smaller than that becomes a Rat> problem for general reading. Note that Times-Roman is small for it's size; a 12 point Times-Roman is often equivalent bit-size-wise to many 11-point typefaces. For monospaced, I prefer Lucida Typewriter (it's what I run Emacs with). It's not as clunky as Courier. -- Scott Byer, Senior Computer Scientist mailto:byer@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mailstop W10 These are my opinions, and 345 Park Avenue do not necessarily reflect San Jose, CA 95110-9704 the opinions of my employer. --------- 56 bits is not enough. Visit http://rc5.distributed.net/ ---------